New Drupal 6 Theme
The Drupal community has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years. I think it is a testament to good system design, an advanced feature set that puts most other systems to shame and strong community involvement. I think that one thing that really helps this is the fact that Drupal is built as an open source platform.
As we built our company over the last year and a half, I have been a little disappointed with the lack of spectacular theme options available in the community. Oh, there are a few, but most aren’t something to write home about.
We have been building themes for sometime. We have built a lot of themes. We finally decided to contribute back to the community.
We figured that we didn’t want to contribute a simple theme. We wanted to contribute an advanced theme. Something with a lot of power behind it.
Over at Tribute Media you can see more documentation on it. You can download the theme at the Drupal project page. You can see a demo of the theme here.
We decided to start a forum at TributeMedia.com for training and discussion.
I’d love to hear what you think.
Corey Smith is the president of Tribute Media a web development firm providing high performing, industry specific websites. He is a businessman, writer, technology fanatic, graphic designer and web developer. His greatest passion is teaching, consulting and speaking.
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Very nice
I like your interpretation of the Newsflash theme which I use on my site. One thing I would like to see, which I am not sure is for an authenticated user to be able to choose a different color for the site with perhaps a co-ordinated logo.
I thought it was doable using subthemes but I ran into a heap of trouble going down that route.
Eric
re: Simply Modern
Eric, have you installed the ThemeSettingsAPI module? If so, you can change the colors from the theme configuration page.
Yes, but what I mean is for
Yes, but what I mean is for each user to be able to pick their own color scheme, say I like Red and you like Blue...
Eric
user color scheme
Well, you could do that pretty easily by putting multiple copies of the theme in with different names. Then you'd be set.
Corey
Your process
Corey, the theme looks hot. I've been tinkering with designing Drupal themes for a while now, and I'm wondering what your process is for preparing a theme for general use. Not that there's a checklist, but what sort of things do you do before releasing a theme?
a process
Well, actually, we have a process. We have a checklist of things that we test. We have built what we call a themeing platform. It allows us to check all the things we think are important so that we can test them. The demo site is a modification of that themeing platform.
Corey
Any hints for me? I've been
Any hints for me? I've been looking at cross-browser compatibility, themeing common Drupal elements like Primary/Secondary links, headers and footer and ensuring that blocks display well.
Are there other factors to be looking at?
Hints
I just started a discussion forum at our business site for support on things like this. You are welcome to ask that question there and we'll see what we can do to help you.
http://www.tributemedia.com/forum
Corey
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From the time I found Drupal, I have realized how perfect it is to use in making my blogs and personal sites. Drupal takes over where websites and blogs reached their natural boundaries. It is a star on the horizon of the web building world.